Coventry City's League Two promotion push stuttered with a 1-0 defeat to Mansfield Town at the Ricoh Arena.

Here's what Sky Blues boss Mark Robins had to say:

ON THE RESULT

It was a tough result to take; I didn’t think we deserved that.

We started really well and were really good and I thought that was the case most of the game.

I think we’re the best side in the division but we have just got to work out the best way of finishing moves off. But again, we have got to be ruthless in the final third.

We are creating chances and those goals will come. It’s just disappointing again because we could certainly be three points better off today.

We had plenty of chances and haven’t taken them because either the goalkeeper has made a good save or we’ve not hit the target

The thing for me is we’ve done all right, moved the ball OK but we haven’t built the pressure enough.

We have got to try to have that extra pass, to be that little bit more creative or a bit more careful in the final third because we have tossed a few balls away where we have been in good positions.

Having said that we have created a number of chances, and really good chances and not conceded too many things. We dealt with Danny Rose in the air, eventually, after he won a few in the first half but we dealt with him pretty well in the second half.

But we’ve got an over-riding feeling of disappointment because we have to decide as a group that we have to be more ruthless. We have to be more ruthless.

ON JORDAN PONTICELLI

We have got a youngster in the team so I am not going to be critical, at all, because he is finding space in the box and does that really well.

The second chance is easy for me to look at it and say right, he should have taken another touch.

His first touch takes it across the defender and then he takes it and opens onto his right foot.

But if he’d have taken it across the keeper it’s either a penalty of side foot into an empty net because the keeper has committed himself.

I think the one in the first half as well, where he tried to hook it with his heel and the ball came back to him and he toe pokes it and the goalkeeper makes a decent save, so he’s finding decent space in the box, which is good.

Marc McNulty did well, got himself into decent positions and created the second chance for Ponticelli later in the second half.

ON TRYING TO MAKE THE BREAKTHROUGH

We tried to get Jodi Jones the game in it more in the second half without opening up.

They made a change where they took Anderson off, who was spent, and put another midfield player in because right from the outset they would have been happy with a draw and end up coming away with the three points.

That’s the disappointing point. We have to take it on the chin and make sure we are stronger for it. We have got to be better in the final third.

ON ALEX MACDONALD'S WINNING GOAL

It’s a worldy in their eyes but really disappointed from our point of view.

We had Jodi high up the pitch and were trying to get the ball to him. But when it’s like that you have to try to get back in. He’s not that high, sort of half and half so he can sprint back in.

We had the ball initially, a throw in on the other side, and I had to decide whether or not to send on Jordan Shipley to negate that.

But we were at home and wanted to go on and win the game, so you kick yourself after the game because Shipley would have been in that position to stop the goal.

But it’s swings and roundabouts and I wanted to try to get that win.

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ON MANSFIELD'S METHODS

It was a real shout for a penalty for us.

You look at them and their diving antics and falling all over the place. I thought it was a very difficult one for the referee at times but we knew what was happening. He (Rose) just throws his body in, feels the contact and goes down and then wins a free-kick.

If you are winning that from the referee then fine, but then he goes down in the box and the referee obviously books him for a dive, so there’s a lot of things that were below the belt in the game but that’s what we’re up against.

We knew that and we had to deal with it.

ON STAGS BOSS STEVE EVANS

It doesn’t bother me at all.

That’s him, he has to live with what he does on the touchline.

I think some of the things that happened on the touchline were just unbelievable but that’s down to him. It’s down to Steve and what they do on the pitch. It’s not my problem.

You get ear-ache when you are on the touchline. It’s the first I have seen of it, first time I've come across him.

ON BOUNCING BACK

We can be down and fed up but we have to get on with it.

We have got three games coming up in just over a week. We have got a week to prepare and one or two issues with Jack and we have to look at what we’re going to do with two away games.

We have got to go Lincoln and then Stevenage on the Tuesday night so we have a tough run of games coming up.

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But we have to look forward to them and make sure we’re ruthless in front of goal because those chances won’t always keep coming.

You can’t think ‘Oh we’ll score the next one, or the next one,’ because they don’t always come.

Again with the youngsters and lads with experience I believe in them totally. It’s frustrating but they will get better as the season goes on that’s for sure.

ON JACK GRIMMER'S INJURY

He’s got concussion so he’s in the treatment room. He’s a bit groggy but it’s obviously not ideal.

I don’t know how long he’ll be out yet but I imagine it will probably be a couple of weeks.